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Originally Posted by mynameisjim
I think people overestimate Google. They have one profitable product and pretty much zero installed base to provide them any insulation against users just switching to something else. They are just as vulnerable to the next big thing as a site like Facebook.
Can Google leverage their position into something that is pretty much unstoppable? Yes. But they haven't done so yet. But they've hurt themselves by telegraphing their plan to take over the internet before they actually do it, attracting the eye of lawmakers and anti trust people.
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I could not disagree more - if anything the power this company is amassing is far under-estimated. The potential for misuse of their vast database of personal private info of users is stunning. Should they ever be allowed to merge this data with ISP databases or the lists of other media conglomerates the potential invasiveness is staggering.
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